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New Beginnings (Don Pullen album)

album by Don Pullen

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ17125536 ↗
Source-derived summary

New Beginnings is an album by the American jazz pianist Don Pullen, recorded in 1988. It was released in 1989 by Blue Note Records.

Critical reception

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Editorial summary

The public source identifies “New Beginnings (Don Pullen album)” as album by Don Pullen. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Beginnings, Pullen and album.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 1989—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Beginnings, Pullen and album providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17125536. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Beginnings (Don Pullen album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.